I really wish I could enable a setting in messaging apps that blocks the other person from sending me audio messages, since that probably wont happen, next best thing would be for a "transcribe button" or something similar, that makes me read instead of having to listen to it, I'll admit, I don't know why am I so averse to them.

@minkiu simplex.chat has exactly this. VMs, auto deletion, etc are negotiable per-contact.